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Monday, March 21, 2016

Frozen Waterfall!

There was the news
that a waterfall of Fukuroda became frozen the other day.

A waterfall of
Fukuroda is a waterfall in Daigo-machi, Ibaraki and is the Takikawa upper
reaches of the Kuji River branch and it is 120m in length, 73m in width.

It is famous that a
waterfall called "icefall" freezes in severe winter.

The waterfall is appointed
in the natural beauty spot of Japan and may be cited in one of three famous
waterfall inJapan such as Kegon Waterfall and Nachi
waterfall and is chosen to 100 selections of Japanese waterfalls.

It is called
"a waterfall of 4 times", because Buddhist Saigyou visited this
ground in the old days and he praised it highly saying "this waterfall
cannot taste the true character if I do not come once in the four
seasons".

The whole waterfall
freezes up in pure white in the winter when cold is severe and it is called as “Icefall”
for the mysterious scenery.

It became "complete
freeze" after an interval of six years in 2012, and it seemed that the ice
climber who challenged to climb an iceberg visited there..